LEP - The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980-2000 The Making, Operation and Legacy of the World's Largest Scientific Instrument /

• Main Author: Schopper, Herwig (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Nuclear physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Particle acceleration.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; History of Science.

Housed by a 4 m diameter tunnel of 27 km circumference, with huge underground labs and numerous surface facilities, and set up with a precision of 0.1 mm per kilometer, the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) was not only the largest but also one of the most sophisticated scientific research inst...